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Abuja isn't safe - Gimba Kakanda

This story/write up was posted on Twitter by Gimba kakanda follow him using this link Check out Gimba Kakanda ( @gimbakakanda): https://twitter.com/gimbakakanda?s=09 You know Abuja is no longer safe. And here’s my own paralyzing experience. Issa thread! I left a friend’s place in Asokoro around 3 AM, and, quite unusually, noticed a car trailing. The driver honked, perhaps asking me to give way. I slowed down, expecting it to overtake. It didn’t. Then it began to accelerate the moment I did. That was the first sign of danger. I had been a night crawler and often confused whenever I read narratives of Abuja as a place unsafe, quietly dismissing them as exaggeration or paranoia. But I wasn’t going to take chances this night. No be me una go carry trend hashtag! 😀 I would’ve been a Formula 1 athlete if I were born in a place with functional health facilities, and that you may agree with at the end of this horror. I was initially somewhat amused by this opportunity to show some...